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“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
the micro-blog version of “Taking Thoughts Captive” with brief quotes, fleeting thoughts, and other ephemera from the cutting room floor...
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.”
— Joseph Sobran
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
— John Butler Yeats
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
— Albert Einstein